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	'<{title}>' => 'Plans',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
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<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>Drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		My discussion post for the day:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			As we covered in a previous unit, the law of large numbers tells us that with a large enough sample, we&apos;ll get decently-accurate statistics.
			You&apos;d think that having most of the data would be necessary for getting accurate answers, but in most cases, this simply isn&apos;t true.
			If you have a sample size of, say, five hundred, predictions made using your sample will tend to reflect the population, accounting for a reasonable margin for error, even if this large sample is only a tiny fraction of the population.
			That is, assuming the sample was taken randomly, and not in some way that generates a bias.
		</p>
		<p>
			The central limit theorem is closely tied to the law of large numbers.
			Simply put, statistical accuracy goes up exponentially with the sample size; but this exponentiation is such that when you have a large sample, you&apos;re on the small end of the exponential equation and when you have little data, you&apos;re on the quickly-changing end.
			If you have a sample size of five hundred, your accuracy will be pretty good.
			Doubling your sample size won&apos;t double your accuracy though.
			Your estimations are so close to perfect that there isn&apos;t much room for improvement.
			However, if you have a sample size of five, doubling that sample will greatly improve the accuracy of your statistics.
			You gain more accuracy from adding these five data points to the small sample than you do from adding five hundred data points to the larger sample.
		</p>
		<p>
			None of this was taken directly from the textbook, and is just my interpretation of what we covered in a past unit.
			The lesson did originally come from the textbook though (Yakir, 2011).
		</p>
		<div class="APA_references">
			<h3>References:</h3>
			<p>
				Yakir, B. (2011, March). Introduction to Statistical Thinking (With R, Without Calculus). Retrieved from <a href="https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=155119"><code>https://my.uopeople.edu/mod/resource/view.php?id=155119</code></a>
			</p>
		</div>
	</blockquote>
</section>
<section id="plan">
	<h2>Plan of action</h2>
	<p>
		For the past while, I&apos;ve been trying to decide upon how to insist that my mother accept me for who and what I am.
		Little by little, a plan has been forming, but it&apos;s always a challenge when dealing with her.
		She&apos;s going to lose me though if she keeps insisting that I&apos;m a man.
		I think I&apos;m figured out how I need to break that to her, but for the greatest chance of success, I need to hold off a bit longer.
	</p>
	<p>
		Last break, my main goals were to fix my flabby body and to learn to type properly.
		My flab&apos;s still here, but it&apos;s going down.
		I have little doubt that I can maintain my diet at this point and get rid of the rest of it.
		Now that I think on it, it&apos;s possible I haven&apos;t lost as much around my gut as I&apos;d initially thought.
		When I bend down, my fat no longer presses into my lungs and winds me.
		This could be because there&apos;s less fat, but it could instead be that there&apos;s a wall of muscle forcing the fat to compress instead of allowing the fat to force my lungs to compress.
		Either way, there&apos;s improvement and the flab should go away if I keep up current efforts.
		I&apos;m going to call this a success for now and mark it off my list.
		My typing&apos;s improved as well.
		I&apos;m back to typing at my regular speed, but now I do so while hitting the keys with the correct fingers.
		I still need some work, but this is good enough for now.
		I&apos;m marking that one off my list as well.
	</p>
	<p>
		I&apos;d hoped to use this coming break to job hunt with my new associate degree, but it looks like that&apos;s not happening.
		My graduation request will be processed near the end of next term, and that&apos;s assuming the complications I anticipate don&apos;t happen.
		I&apos;ll need to use this next break working on something else.
		I think what I&apos;ll work on is organisation and researching permanent methods of hair removal.
	</p>
	<p>
		This school takes a lot out of me, and during the term, my home always ends up in disorder because I don&apos;t have enough left in me to keep things organised.
		I end up plopping things down wherever I won&apos;t have to fully deal with them yet, for example, and end up with nothing in a usable order.
		Then between terms, I take the time to undo most of the damage, but can&apos;t completely finish before school starts again.
		No more.
		I need to get a system set up this time.
		For example, the mess usually begins with unprocessed paperwork.
		I need a largish, dedicated spot just to put paper items such as mail and forms where they can stack up without interfering with anything else.
		Another spot would be useful for miscellaneous items my mother decides I need.
		Many if not most of these items are useful to have around, but I don&apos;t have the energy when school is in session to find a proper place for each item individually.
		I didn&apos;t even bother to fix things up during this last break because I knew the organisation wouldn&apos;t last and I had other goals to focus on.
		This time, I need to finish this once and for all.
	</p>
	<p>
		As for hair removal, I have some leads on some home remedies, but haven&apos;t had the time to use them consistently.
		It&apos;d be nice to not have to resort to expensive methods such as electrolysis, so I should try out these long shots before heading for proven medical procedures.
		I&apos;ve been seeing a lot of cool shirts lately that just wouldn&apos;t work on me because of my hairy body.
		Like, I know my body shape isn&apos;t the greatest at the moment, but that wouldn&apos;t even be enough to stop me from wearing most of the clothing I&apos;d prefer.
		It&apos;s just that parts of my skin would be exposed and my hair makes the look trashy.
		I&apos;m not even trying to expose a lot of skin, just a little below my neck line and a bit on my arms.
		That&apos;s not too much to ask, I would think.
		As it is, I have to wear an undershirt with the one such shirt I own, and it really detracts from the look of it.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="sales">
	<h2>Sales contest</h2>
	<p>
		The head manager was once again complimenting me on my high sales average so far, and said I only have to keep it up a few more days to win.
		Of course, I still wasn&apos;t planning to actually win, and told them I thought the smooth salesperson would still pull ahead and win.
		Do you know what they told me?
		The smooth salesperson is disqualified!
		They&apos;ve got to stick around through the fifth, but after that, they&apos;ll quickly be headed to another store in our franchise.
		They&apos;re just here to train; they&apos;re actually planned to be the head manager of said other location.
		The head manager doesn&apos;t want to give the prize to, as he put it, an &quot;outsider&quot;.
		The implications of this though are that the head manager&apos;s been having me run from shadows.
		They deliberately told me before that the smooth salesperson was on my tail.
		At least that hasn&apos;t been effective though.
		I&apos;ve been rooting for the smooth salesperson.
		It&apos;s hard to say why I&apos;m in the lead, but I&apos;m almost certain the smooth salesperson deserves to win more than I do.
	</p>
</section>
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